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The nation owes a substantial debt to Justice Samuel Alito for his display of unhappiness over President Obama's criticisms of the Supreme Court's recent legislation -- excuse me, decision -- opening our electoral system to a new ...

President Barack Obama sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions.

In a 5-4 decision that strikes down a 1907 law, the justices say the 1st Amendment gives corporations, just like individuals, a right to spend their own money on political ads for federal candidates.

The Supreme Court today overturned a century-old restriction on corporations using their money to sway federal elections and ruled that companies have a free-speech right to spend as much as they wish to persuade voters to elect or defeat candidates for Congress and the White House.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality ...

The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will hear arguments from a group of Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more than seven years even after the Pentagon determined they are not threats to the United States.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized overnight after experiencing extreme drowsiness but was later released from hospital, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The Supreme Court will consider throwing out the convictions of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling for his role in the collapse of the one-time energy giant.

The Supreme Court is taking up a long-running legal fight over a cross honoring World War I soldiers that has stood for 75 years ...

Chief Justice Roberts administers the oath on a quiet morning so she can begin work 'without delay,' he says.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor won U.S. Senate approval on Thursday to become the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court.